Dr Jessica Jacobson-Konefall

RBC Emerging Scholar, Winnipeg 2015

Public Fellow, Winnipeg 2017

Dr. Jessica Jacobson-Konefall is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies, University of Manitoba. Since 2010 she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Winnipeg. She begins a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at University of Toronto this fall, in the Department of History of Art, focusing on eco art and ecological citizenship in Canada (2017-19).

Dr Jacobson -Konefall is one of two Canada 150 Scholars-in-Residence at the 2017 Spur Winnipeg Festival.

This initiative is made possible by the Community Fund for Canada’s 150th, a collaboration between The Spur Festival, the Government of Canada, and extraordinary leaders from coast to coast to coast.